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CHIP News for October 28, 1998
>SOURCE: EL MERCURIO
>SOURCE: LA TERCERA
> -- ECOLOGISTS REJECT RALCO PROTOCOL. Ecologists Juan Pablo
>Orrego and Sara Larrain Tuesday rejected the agreement for
>improved living standards signed between Endesa and 184
>Pehuenche families Sunday. The pact involves housing subsidies,
>electricity and road improvements, and job development. Details of
>the agreement were published Tuesday in a full-page color
>advertisement taken out by Endesa that ran in several national daily
>newspapers. Orrego questioned the wording of the agreement, which
>was signed with families supposedly not directly affected by the
>construction of the Ralco dam. The entire Upper Bio Bio will be
>affected by the Ralco dam, he said.
> Orrego said that Endesa's media campaign is meant to "drown
>out" the eight families who have yet to sign land barter contracts
>with Endesa, and that if the dam is not constructed, the agreement is
>null and void. Larrain said "it is suspicious that this protocol was
>signed before any agreement about indigenous development." The
>signing, she said, is a way to divide the indigenous communities in
>the country before voting on the land contracts takes place.
>Mapuche coordinator for Region IX said neither Endesa nor National
>Indigenous Development Board (Conadi) Director Rodrigo Gonzalez
>had made it clear that the community only benefits from these deals
>if the Ralco dam is constructed.
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